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The Monochrome Cube
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE MONOCHROME CUBE is a haunting, philosophical poetry collection that drifts through grief, memory, identity, love, social collapse, and spiritual awakening. Written in a hypnotic free-verse style, Samuel Ludke creates a monochrome world where ordinary people carry invisible suffering, lovers hide quietly in forgotten rooms, cities tremble beneath systems built on cruelty, and human beings search for meaning inside emotional and spiritual isolation.
Across interconnected poems like The Cube and the Life That Left Him, The Real Lovers in the Back Room, The Godless Fools, and The Waterfall of My Own Sin, the book explores what it means to survive in a world that feels emotionally fractured yet still capable of tenderness. Themes of alienation, exhaustion, memory, redemption, and quiet hope echo through every page.
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